Re:Mastodon.technology Shutdown
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:11PM
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But still plenty popular - at it's peak it had 200 million users. For comparison, that's nearly 2/3 the population of the USA
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That metric is very misleading.
That is the number of Google accounts that didn’t go through the effort of disconnecting from / opting out of Google+. For a few years, all new accounts were automatically enrolled in Google+. It’s likely an extremely inflated number compared to the number of users that engaged with Google+ social features.
Citation: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/01/google-doubles-plus-...
I agree with the sibling that that isn't a representative number. I think we'd want to know something related to actual participation - what's the average daily or weekly number of posts or likes or whatever equivalent is in Plus versus Facebook, Twitter, etc.